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For the first time since taking office last year, the Prayut government will on Monday face a no-confidence debate, with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and five other members of his Cabinet being the prime targets. However, though the opposition is armed with a long list of allegations, the debate is not going to be as
Thailand’s Government and Opposition are combat ready for a showdown in the first censure debate in six years, which kicks off tomorrow, with opposition chief whip Suthin Klangsaeng saying Saturday that, after the 3 day debate, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will be renamed “the ruling sinner” because “he is standing on the sufferings of the
With limited access to news and information from media in the Arab world, Thai people’s understanding and perception of the situation in the Middle East is often shaped by what they hear from western media. ThaiPBS World talks to Prof. Dr. Jaran Maluleem, a Middle East specialist at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University,
The Student Union of Thailand held a brief rally, at the Tha Phrachan campus of Thammasat University Saturday evening, to protest against the Constitutional Court’s decision to dissolve the Future Forward party and ban its executive committee members from politics for ten years. Students and members of the public who support the now defunct party
Political activist Srisuwan Janya said today that he will lodge a complaint on Monday asking the Election Commission (EC) to take legal action against former Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and former executive committee members, after the Constitutional Court dissolved the party and banned its executives from politics for ten years over a loan
Former Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has vowed to carry on reaching for the party’s unfinished objectives, to stop the junta from prolonging its stay in power, to reform the military and to amend the current Constitution among others, through the setting up of the Khana Anakhot Mai (Future Forward group). As defiant as
The US embassy in Bangkok has expressed concern that the Constitutional Court’s decision on Friday, to dissolve the Future Forward party, risks disenfranchising more than six million Thai voters who voted for the party in the March 24th 2019 general election. In a statement issued on Saturday, the embassy said “The United States strongly supports
Thailand’s former National Intelligence Agency deputy director Nanthiwat Samart has accused the US embassy in Bangkok of interfering in Thailand’s domestic affairs over the Constitutional Court’s decision on Friday to dissolve the Future Forward party and to ban its executive committee from politics for ten years. In an online open letter, addressed to the US
The 191-million-baht loan extended by Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit to his now-defunct Future Forward Party was outside the ordinary course of business and allowed him to exercise influence over the party, according to the Constitutional Court. In its ruling, the court sees the loans as the party’s attempts to circumvent Article 66 of the Political Parties Act
The Constitutional Court has ordered the Future Forward Party dissolved after finding it guilty of breaking the law by obtaining loans from its leader Thanathorn Jungroongruangkit. The court also ordered all the members of the party’s executive committee stripped of their MP status and banned from politics for 10 years. Thanathorn and other party’s
Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit said today that, if he could turn back the clock, his party would still have taken the loan and would do so openly. On the eve of the Constitutional Court judgement in the case, involving the Future Forward party’s acceptance of a 191.2 million baht loan from its leader,
